[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#831548: Bug#831548: RM: mtasc -- ROM; obsoleted by newer standard web technologies

[Bastien ROUCARIES]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 2, 2018 at 9:10 AM, Bastien ROUCARIES
<roucaries.bastien at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Le sam. 2 juin 2018 à 08:59, Niels Thykier <niels at thykier.net> a écrit :
>>
>> On Sat, 23 Dec 2017 06:58:52 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Control: severity -1 serious
>> > Control: severity 831553 normal
>> >
>> > Hi everyone,
>> >
>> > The buster cycle is the right time to remove mtasc from the Debian
>> > archive. It has been unmaintained in Debian and upstream for years. The
>> > web ecosystem is moving away from Flash towards standard web tech,
>> > which can now replace most use of Flash. Debian should encourage our
>> > upstreams to move towards standard web tech like HTML5 and JavaScript.
>> >
>> > Please talk to your upstreams about transitioning away from
>> > ActionScript 2 towards HTML5 JavaScript. If they need to still
>> > support Flash for some users, then they should switch to something
>> > like Haxe but they should not build Flash files by default.
>> >
>> > On Fri, 22 Dec 2017 17:29:50 -0500 Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> >
>> > > 15 months later all but one of those bugs is still open.  Can you
>> > > either work
>> > > with the maintainers to get them done or close this request until it's
>> > > ripe
>> > > for processing.
>> >
>> > --
>> > bye,
>> > pabs
>> >
>> > https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This package (dojo) is officially maintained by the Javascript team but
>> appears to be de facto unmaintained.  It has several RC bugs and is
>> stalling the removal of obsolete packages (admittedly only from unstable).
>>
>> If you are still interested in maintaining the package, then please
>> resolve the RC bugs (at the very least this bug, which is blocking
>> others).  If there is no visible progress on resolving this bug in a
>> month from now, I will assume you are no longer interested in it and
>> that you will support a removal of dojo from unstable.
>>
>> I have explicitly included all listed maintainers and uploaders (except
>> for Frank, which appears to have disclaimed interest in this package per
>> #863693)
>>
>> Thanks,
>> ~Niels

I needed to merge shrinksafe back in dojo (upstream merge). I have
modified the control file and will upload ASAP.

Could you check if my merge is right (particularly d/control breaks/replaces).

Repo is here https://salsa.debian.org/js-team/dojo


Bastien

>
> Will get a glimpse.
>
> BTw it means that a few lintian warning are now fatal because ftbfs...
>
> Bastien
>>
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